DHAKA: The newly elected mayor and councilors of the Rangpur City Corporation took oath on Thursday (January 18). The oath-taking ceremony was held at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in Dhaka in the morning. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath of the newly elected

COMILLA: Ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said his party is more disappointed than others over the High Court stay order on Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-polls. Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges minister, made the comment while visiting

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir terms the High Court stay order on Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) as complete failure of the Election Commission (EC).  He made the reaction while talking to reporters in response to the HC order against DNCC mayoral

DHAKA: The BNP has accused the government as well as the ruling Awami League of intervening in postponing the by-polls to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) to avert debacle. Speaking at a discussion on Wednesday (January 17), BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf

BARISAL: Police recovered a firearm from the residence of a BNP leader in Barisal who was earlier arrested in a case filed over shooting Bakerganj upazila unit Awami League leader Syed Sultan Hossain. The arrestee, Salam Shikder, is a resident of Bakerganj upazila and a local leader

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League will take organizational action against those who were involved in the factional clash during hawker eviction drive at Chasara area in Narayanganj city on Tuesday (January 16). The party’s general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday (January 17) said

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League has nominated former FBCCI president Atiqul Islam as its candidate in the mayoral by-polls to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The party picked its candidate at a meeting of the AL’s nomination board at Prime Minister’s official residence

DHAKA: Barrister Moudud Ahmed, BNP’s senior leader and a senior lawyer for the party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia, placed the closing argument in favor of the BNP chief before the special court on Tuesday (January 16). Barrister Moudud sought acquittal of the BNP chief from the

COX’S BAZAR: A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the ruling party, was killed as a bus rammed his motorcycle in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar. He was identified as Bahadur Alam Chowdhury, 22, son of Md Siddiq in Balukhali Purbopara of Ukhia, and

DHAKA: BNP nominated Tabith Awal to contest the mayoral by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters on Monday night (January 15) that the party’s nomination board has finalized Tabith’s candidacy after

DHAKA: Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna said the Prime Minister’s speech on the upcoming general elections disappointed people as the electoral process lack roadmap. He made the remarks at a press conference in the national press club on Monday (January 15) organized by

SATKHIRA: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has said that the procedure for the next parliamentary polls will begin in October. The CEC said this while talking to the journalists at the circuit house in Satkhira on Monday (January 15).   KM Nurul Huda expressed his

DHAKA: The BNP has demanded army deployment in the upcoming mayoral-by polls to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The party’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed raised the demand at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the city

DHAKA: A total of 12 aspirants have collected the nomination forms of the ruling Awami League in two days for mayoral by-polls in the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). Among them, four aspirants brought the nomination forms from the Awami League president’s Dhanmondi

DHAKA: Five aspirants on Sunday (January 14) collected the nomination forms of the BNP from the party’s central office in city’s Nayapaltan for mayoral by-polls in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The aspirants are- BNP’s special secretary Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon, the

SIRAJGANJ: Police arrested two local leaders of BNP in separate cases in Sirajganj Sunday (January 14). They are—Nazmul Hossain Talukder Rana, president of Sirajganj municipality unit of BNP and Amar Krishna Das, secretary general of Sirajganj sadar upazila unit of the party.   

DHAKA: Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said the opposition BNP's proposal for a polls-time supportive government is conspiratorial. Inu, also president of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD-Inu), came up with this remark at a press conference in his office at the Secretariat on

MEHERPUR: A district court awarded 10-years of imprisonment to the Mayor of Gangni upazila of Meherpur district and convener of upazila Juba League Ashraful Islam in arms case. Joint District Judge Tajul Islam of Mehrpur Assistant Judge Court-2 delivered the verdict at 11:30 pm on

KHULNA: Sheikh Sarhan Naser Tonmoy, 32, has already attracted the attention of all as a handsome, lovely and a good orator.  He is the only son of Sheikh Helal Uddin MP, son of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s younger brother Sheikh Naser. He has drawn the attentions of many

DHAKA: BNP will start selling nomination forms for the mayoral by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) from Sunday (January 14). Interested aspirants can buy a nomination form at Tk 10,000 from BNP's Naya Paltan central office by 4:00pm Sunday. The nomination-seekers